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He was interested in the life of the native peoples and he became interpreter of Iroquoian languages, particularly Huron. ... Pierre Boucher, like New France pioneers Samuel de Champlain and Jean Talon, believed in miscegenation with the native peoples.

Carnival traditions in Latin America are immensely rich. For millions of people, February is linked to heat, music, water fights and a feast of colours. ... Both the physical landscape of Manuel’s childhood and the people around him were clearly

Kugler’s poems are mainly observations on his travels, recalling people and landscapes he had encountered. ... He laughed and told her that he had had 100 people waiting outside at 6.30 am that morning, and that he had only managed to secure 40 copies.

Thus, it can be said, without exaggeration, that the courtroom, where people are tried for dissent, is a last bastion of freedom of speech in today’s Russia.” [from the blurb

By europeancollectionsInOn 19th June 2022, after a second round of voting, the Colombian people elected their first ever left-wing government, led by Gustavo Petro, with Francia Márquez as vice-president, ... In this post, we will focus on this

Certainly the worst flood in the city’s history for many hundreds of years, the flooding of the Arno on 4th November 1966 killed 101 people and damaged or destroyed a

In his second adventure, Tintin visits the Belgian Congo. On the one hand Tintin au Congo has been considered racist by some, because of its naïve portrait of native Congolese peoples;

An important part of cataloguing work in the Library is what we call authority work – adding or editing records for people for the master authority file hosted by the Library of ... Having people uniquely identified in our indexes allows us to group

Once an explanation about the title had been given to the director of the Paris publishing house L’Harmattan, Denis Pryen, suggesting that beyond the surface differences between people there was

At midnight, the Nazi propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, addressed a crowd of over 50,000 people  and condemned works written by Jews, liberals, leftists, pacifists, foreigners and others as “un-German”.